Home management of primary constipation in children

Although pediatric constipation is not a serious disease, but if long-term constipation, feces in the intestinal tract of the child stays too long, fecal matter in the bacterial decomposition of many harmful substances, these harmful substances are easy to flow into the bloodstream and be absorbed by the body, the baby’s body, if the absorption of toxins is too much, more than the liver’s ability to detoxify the toxins will flow into the brain through the bloodstream, damage to the central nervous system, causing dizziness, lack of concentration, mental depression and other symptoms until finally affecting the intellectual development of the child, and then the baby’s body will be able to absorb the toxins. Dizziness, lack of concentration, mental depression and other symptoms, until finally affecting the baby’s intellectual development. 1, defecation habits series Choose the appearance of brightly colored toilet, placed in the location of the child easy to use (not necessarily in the bathroom), encourage children to sit on the toilet every day for a while (wake up or after meals), the height of the seat should be appropriate, so that the level of the knees higher than the hips, is conducive to the descent of the ligaments of the rectum, feet should be on the ground in order to force. Secondly, defecation movement training is needed, and the child is instructed to hold his breath after exhaling to increase intra-abdominal pressure and coordinate the movement of the internal and external anal sphincter muscles. It is better to choose the time of defecation habit training within 30~60 minutes after meal. Precautions: 5~10 minutes each time, avoid squatting, sitting for a long time, and strong force, which may cause anal muscle fatigue. 7~10 days to see the effect. 18 months to start the training, too early or too late to affect the effect, and give a certain degree of psychological inducement. Parents should praise the successful defecation in order to enhance their self-confidence. If defecation fails, the child should not be reprimanded, and the child’s sense of tension should be eliminated. The phenomenon of backwardness may occur in training, such as holding back feces without relieving, backwardness is a normal phenomenon in training, does not mean failure, parents should accept this fact, without anxiety and pressure. 2, the adjustment of dietary structure Prevention and treatment of children’s constipation, high-fiber diet and adequate water intake is the first, should pay attention to the intake of dietary fiber. Dietary fiber to wheat bran in the highest content, can make the weight of feces increase the most. Cereals contain more dietary fiber for sorghum rice, corn; fruits, vegetables, can make the amount of moderate increase in feces, such as leeks, carrots, sweet potatoes, pears, bananas, etc., legumes only a small increase in feces, high content of red beans, kidney beans and soybeans. 3, increase the amount of activity Encourage children to participate in a variety of physical activities, cultivate the habit of labor, can walk on occasions as far as possible not to sit in the car, up and down the stairs to climb the stairs themselves, should be more than one hour of daily physical exercise, jogging, dancing, swimming, jumping rope.